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Ordinal voting methods all appeal to "majority rule" in one form or another. But given the fundamental limitations of the ordinal "majority", which is dominated by the candidates, not the voters, one should consider alternative justifications for this criterion.
In conclusion, since people have multiple attributes which can be used to classify them, in many attributes they will be a majority and in many others a minority. How are we supposed to claim that any one of these possible divisions of the population has a greater claim to power over the other? More importantly, what processes are defining this partition, and how legitimate are they?
== Cardinalism and the "majority of consensus" ==
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